AMHERST – The Amherst-Pelham Education Association has organized a vigil this afternoon in support of Carolyn Gardner the Amherst Regional High School math teacher who has been the subject of four racial attacks, the latest of which came last Wednesday in a school bathroom.

In addition, the Amherst chapter of the NAACP Education committee will meet tonight at 7 at the Bangs Community Center to strategize a response to what happened.

Police are investigating and have found fingerprints near where the graffiti was written, according to a memo from High School Principal Mark Jackson.

The district has set up an anonymous tip line asking for people to report what they know.
While the school will not hold any assemblies this week to address the issue “Time will be devoted in the next two weeks during the school day, however, for students to engage these issues,” Jackson said in an email.

Saying it’s a personnel matter, he could not say if Gardner has returned to school. She had not been in school last week.